The annual Wings Over Water festival officially took flight on Tuesday, October 15, and there is still time for new and longtime festival-goers to register for upcoming events this week. Celebrating its 22nd year in 2019, the mid-fall session of Wings Over Water has more than 85 scheduled events from October 15 through Sunday, October 20. […]
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After more than a month of operation, the Frisco Free Market at the Frisco Volunteer Fire Department is closing, and is moving all supplies to the Hatteras Blessing Market at the Hatteras Assembly of God Church. The Frisco Free Market was launched shortly after Hurricane Dorian made landfall as a central location for Hatteras Island residents in […]
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A public hearing will be held on Monday, November 4 at 9:30 a.m. for the Dare County Board of Commissioners to receive comments regarding the construction of a water supply system to extend service to 21 properties located on Leslie Lane in Avon. Comments can be made in the Commissioner’s Meeting Room at the Dare County […]
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The reproduction bust of Orville Wright, which was recently stolen from Wright Brothers National Memorial, was found this afternoon on the beach in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Additional details: At 3:25 p.m. today, a Kill Devil Hills beach visitor called the Dare County non-emergency line to report that the reproduction Orville Wright bust […]
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The Hyde County commissioners, at their Oct. 7 meeting, agreed to life the ban on alcohol sales on Ocracoke during the Hurricane Dorian emergency as of Monday (Oct. 14). The commissioners also discussed lifting the evacuation order at their meeting this month since two petitions had circulated on the island. One, signed by about 28 […]
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Seasonal ORV access for beaches in front of the villages of Hatteras Island has reopened for the off-season, starting on Tuesday, October 15. These routes, which run parallel to the towns of Hatteras, Frisco, Avon, and the Tri-villages, open to ORVs annually in the winter months when the visitor population is low, and close from […]
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July 4, 1928 – October 13, 2019 HATTERAS — Theodore Stockton Midgett, 91, of Hatteras, NC died Sunday, October 13, 2019, at Peak Resources – Outer Banks. A native of Dare County, he was born July 4, 1928, to the late Ersie Midgett and Theodore Stockton Midgett. As a child Stocky was raised in Fair […]
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Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, Alfie, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on Alfie, and the many other Outer Banks pets currently up for adoption, visit the Outer Banks SPCA website at https://www.obxspca.org/, or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/obxspca/
After suffering significant damage from Subtropical Storm Melissa, staff are working hard to reopen a roughly 300 ft. section of the Avon Fishing Pier, as well as the Avon Pier House, by the middle of this week, per an update from pier operator Joe Thompson. Days of battering waves caused a split towards the end […]
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After reopening N.C. 12 Saturday, N.C. Department of Transportation crews have started repairing a protective dune line that was damaged due to tides stemming from Tropical Storm Melissa. The road was closed between Friday morning and Saturday evening due to dune breaches that caused ocean overwash in several locations between the Marc Basnight Bridge and […]
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